In this series of articles we will take from the statements of Imaam Abdul-Aziz bin Baz, Imaam al-Albaani, Shaykh Abdullah al-Ghudayan, Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Aal ash-Shaykh, Shaykh Abdur-Razzaq al-Afeefee, Shaykh Ahmad an-Najmee, Shaykh Rabee' bin Haadee, Shaykh Ubayd al-Jaabiree, Shaykh Salih as-Suhaymee, Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ar-Raajihee and others to provide a framework of understanding regarding this subject. We will be drawing upon two fatwas mainly (the Permanent Committee of Major Scholars, and the Fiqh Council), and the sayings and remarks from some of the individual Scholars just mentioned.

The Roles and Methodologies of the Innovators and Deviants in the Corruption of the Religion - Part 2

In this article we want to continue the coverage of the connection between Freemasonry and the sects and groups of Innovation, who are the prime tool of subversion for attacking Islam, both physically and ideologically.

Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Aal ash-Shaykh on the Goals of Freemasonry

And the Muftee Abdul-Aziz Aal ash-Shaykh said in his khutbah (حرص المسلم على مصلحة الأمة), "Eagerness of the Muslim for the Betterment of the Ummah":

O Muslim, verily the destructive orientations and the misguided orientations, they have two affairs, matters that are apparent, and matters that are hidden, and in their secret counsels there are fearful designs against Islam and its people, [those of] disbelief and deviation, and spreading of immoralities, destruction of [moral] uprightness and [noble] characteristics. For the Masonic lodges, alongside their variation and the concealment of their affairs, and traversing upon total secrecy, they often make it appear to the people that their aim is rectification, peace, love, cordiality, establishing general [human] rights and so on, from what they claim. However, in the inward reality of its affair, it opposes Islam, [attempts to] tear out its roots, to wage war against its moral characteristics and virtues, and to end all the noble manners it calls to. So the Muslim should take caution from all of these, there are astray sects that are spread to Islam, it is extremely unfortunate, but they are opposed to Islam when [considering] the realities of their affairs. For they are the lords of the tariqahs (paths) and the callers to the tariqahs (paths) of the misguided Mutasawwifah [Gnostic Sufis] who claim a variety of types of worship, as they claim, except that in the reality of their inward affair, they oppose the truth, and shun the truth and do not bind and restrict themselves by the Sunnah of Muhammad (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam).

These people do not hide the fact that Esoteric Sufism is amongst the chosen vehicles of subversion, strife and turmoil, and its in the policy documents and writings of the think-tanks that write out such strategies.

Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani, Freemasonry and the Muslim Brotherhood of Hassan al-Banna

In an article in the magazine al-Iqtisaadiyah (dated 28/1/2005CE), concerning Hasan al-Banna and Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani, the author notes:

Verily he was affected by Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani and his school of thought, from which is Muhammad Abduh. For this reason he (Hasan al-Banna) praised this Freemasonic School (i.e. orientation), and was affected by it in a number of affairs, secret organization, esoterica (secrets known only to initiated minority), [the use of] taqiyah (dissimulation), manifesting openly other than what one truly believes for the "benefit" of the da'wah, preoccupation with politics, gathering together all the different factions, the Sunnis and the innovators amongst them, until even the non-Muslims. For more about the condition of Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani and the extent of the influence of Hasan al-Banna by him, refer to the opening parts of the book "Al-Ikhwaan al-Muslimeen in the Scales of Islaam".

Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani is a very dubious and suspect character. He was extremely widely traveled, in India, all across middle Asia, in Europe, and he was a high Freemason. From all available resources, he was most likely an Ismaee'eelee, he came from Asadabad (Iran), and he was attempting to unite the masses whilst accommodating both the common folk (who "need religion") and the rationalist elite (who have a different, "higher truth") - all amalgamated into a political movement. He also proselytized for the Bahai religion which was a global religious movement created by Freemasonry and whose aim is to dissolve all religion into one universal religion. Al-Afghani eventually turned up in Egypt in the 1870s, where he set up an Arabic Masonic brotherhood, which attracted Nizari Ismaa'eelees, and he referred this brotherhood as al-Ikhwan as-Saffaa (which was a direct reference to the 10th century CE Ismaee'eelee Baatinee brotherhood which was also called "al-Ikhwan as-Saffaa). Hasan al-Banna created his "al-Ikhwan al-Muslimoon" borrowing its features and characteristics from Freemasonry. Some other Freemasons in Egypt who were attracted to and influenced by al-Afghani were Mohammad Abduh and also Sa'eed Zaghlul founder of the Wafd Party (of which Sayyid Qutb was a member in his earlier years whilst being engrossed in western materialistic philosophies in the period up to 1940). Hasan al-Banna's "Muslim Brotherhood" is modeled around Freemasonry and influenced by its doctrines (universal brotherhood, fraternity, and so on), and it looks like he was simply trying to imitate al-Afghani. All of this explains al-Banna's [Freemasonic-like] doctrine of "Let us unite upon that which we agree and pardon each other on that which we disagree" - known as the "Golden Principle" whose practical implementation is well known to those who have basr (vision) and baseerah (insight). Just as in Freemasonry, you can of any religion to join the brotherhood, then in Bannaa's brotherhood you can be of any religious persuasion, you can be a Sunni, Shi'i, Jahmi, Mu'tazili and so on, all are equal and are united by a common goal, even if their personal beliefs are diverse.

Shaykh Ubayd al-Jabiree on the Heads of Innovation and Misguidance

And Shaykh Ubayd al-Jabiree said in his lecture (الصوارف عن اتباع السنة), "Things That Divert from Following the Sunnah", when he spoke of the second of them, which commendation of the heads of misguidance, the Innovators:

The second way from the ways of diversion from knowledge: The commendation of the heads of misguidance, the deviants who do not have any share to calling to the Sunnah amongst them... Commendation (praise) of the heads of innovation, and the callers to deviation, and some of them are heads in Freemasonry, and servants of the Raafidah and other than that from [what comprises] enmity to the Sunnah and its people, and perhaps this is what the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) pointed to with his saying, "There will come upon the people years of deception in which the liar will be believed and the truthful one will be disbelieved. The treacherous will be trusted and the trustworthy one will be distrusted, and the Ruwaibidah will speak", and they (the Companions) asked, "What are the Ruwaibidah, O Messenger of Allaah?", and he said, "The despicable lowly man who speaks in the general affairs (of the people)". So it is a destitute man who does not have understanding of the Book and the Sunnah at all, but he is a literary writer who embellishes expressions, beautifies them and adorns them. Sometimes you heard truthful words from him, and other times, and this is the majority, you will hear false words. And this is hypocrisy, and this is the essence of hypocrisy, those who play with two ropes, they proclaim to a gathering that which a listener has not heard any better than it - meaning the general folk, and the rabble - and they proclaim to another gathering, with the face of enmity, hatred, and of violent, grimacing, ideological revolution representing enmity.

Shaykh Salih as-Suhaymeen on the Freemasonic Agenda of Separating the Youth from the Scholars

And Shaykh Saalih as-Suhaymee said in his lecture (سبيل النجاة), "The Path of Deliverance":

Adhering to the Scholars of the Sunnah, taking from them and striving to accompany them, and benefiting from their knowledge, and respecting them, loving them, and allying with them for the sake of Allaah, the Sublime and Exalted, and refuting those who belittles them or attacks them or takes from their [honorable] standing (i.e. status), because attacking their status, and separating between the Scholars and the youth is from the greatest of the designs which world Zionist Freemasonry [has been] calling to since hundreds of years. And they have succeeded to a great extent in many spheres in that they have separated between the religion and the state as occurs in many lands, and they have separated between the Scholars and the youth, either through extremism or through neglect, laxity. Either though revolt against the religion and falling into the laces of secularism, whatever its orientation might be, or by extremism and adopting the methodology of the Kharijites, the Takfiris, and those who depart from the methodology of Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah...

The Scholars are the "Inheritors of the Prophets", and they are at the head of the "Taa'ifat ul-Mansoorah" (the Aided Group), and they are the "lifeline" (so to speak) of the Muslim Ummah, and thus, the most effective subversive method is to tear away the youth from the Scholars, to belittle and attack the Scholars, to accuse them of ignorance, not knowing the realities, of living in the middle ages, and of having no knowledge except that pertaining to the rulings of women's menses. And whilst this is expected from those outside of Islam, its strange that it should also come from those claiming the Sunnah, let alone ascription to Islaam.

And as the groups of innovation, in their origins, deviation and misguidance are often propped up by dubious background sources and supporters, it is these groups of innovation that lead the brigade in attacking the Scholars. The Rafidah Shi'ah, the Kharijite Takfiris, the Esoteric Sufis,and the modernist, rationalist secularists.

Shaykh Ubayd al-Jaabiree on the Slogans of Freemasonry and Pan-Islamist Groups

And Shaykh Ubayd al-Jabiree said in his explanation of "al-Usool ath-Thalaathah" recorded by "Tasjeelaat Yahyaa bin Ma'een" (Algeria):

And there has appeared in the field of da'wah, the activities of at-taqreeb (nearness, unity) which began around forty years ago, of nearness between the Sunnah and Shi'ah. There appeared in some of the Islamic conferences two years ago in America I think, the saying of some of the leaders of the jamaa'aat (groups), or a particular group amongst them, they said: We will unite the Muslims today upon the lowest (common) denominator of Islaam! Meaning what? Upon the removal of something harmful from the floor? Or upon voluntary charity! This is the activity of bringing nearness until the Raafidee, the Huloolee (believer in the Divine indwelling) equal (to the Sunnee). The Qubooree (grave-worshipper) is prepared to spend in charity for a debt (of someone), and the Huloolee is prepared also to do something, and prepared to say "There is none which has the right to be worshipped except Allaah" too. So they looked at the activity of nearness (at-taqreeb). And this activity of bringing nearness (between truth and falsehood), its origin is in one (element) of the Trinity of Freemasonry, you know the trinity of the Freemasons, "Equality", "Fraternity" and "Liberty". This is the activity of (bringing) "equality", the activity of (bringing) "fraternity", a Raafidee with the Sunnee with the Soofee with the Huloolee with the Qubooree, with the Jahmee with the Maatureedee, all of them are one, all of them uniting on the lowest (common) denominator of Islaam??

The slogans of "Equality, Fraternity and Liberty" were those of the Freemasons who were behind the French Revolution, they are the Jacobinists, and they are the Freemasonry Illuminists who fermented the revolution, and this was the first revolution of many revolutions to follow, following the covert agenda to abolish monarchies, governments, religions, private property and the family institution, first laid down by the "Order of the Illuminati" in 1776 through Adam Weishaupt. Destroying the roots and handholds of [revealed] religion was their aim, and one of the roots to this end is to dissolve all religion into a single melting pot. This was also the aim behind the Freemasonic Bahai' religion that was set up after the mid 1800s, which Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani was a proselytizer for, and this is also the aim of the Freemasonic Theosophical society whose aim is to bring the Freemasonic (Occult) religion to the masses, and to dissolve all other religion.

Now, these Innovators of Islam, they all follow this slogan of Freemasonry, which is "Fraternity", "Equality", and this started with Hasan al-Bannaa who set up "the Muslim Brotherhood" based upon the Freemasonic brotherhood set up by Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani half a century early (called al-Ikhwan as-Saffaa), and just as al-Afghani had a very sinister agenda of what can be described as pan-Islamism (he was an Ismaa'eelee Baatinee), and it is likely he was trying to do the same for Muslims, that the Bahai' faith was attempting in the Middle East in general. So Hasan al-Bannaa took this methodology and he applied it to his "Muslim Brotherhood", and therefore, everyone is now in the same "fraternity" (i.e. brotherhood) and everyone has "equality", and thus, the Sunni is the Rafidi (Shi'ah) is the Jahmee, is the Huloolee (believer in Divine indwelling), is the Ittihaadee (believer in Divine union), is the Mu'tazilee, is the Matureedee, is the Qubooree (grave worshipper), and they are all one and should be united under a single banner, and thus the slogan, the so-called "golden principle", "Let us unite in that which we agree, and let us pardon each other in that which we disagree" which is in reality the same general principle that is propagated to the useful idiots at the lower levels of Freemasonry.